| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Action: 1. Right Action; 2. Resolvable Dilemmas; 3. Irresolvable and Tragic Dilemmas -- pt. II. Emotion and Motivation: 4. Aristotle and Kant; 5. Virtue and the Emotions; 6. Virtuous Agent's Reasons for Action; 7. Moral Motivation -- pt. III. Rationality: 8. Virtues Benefit their Possessor; 9. Naturalism; 10. Naturalism for Rational Animals; 11. Objectivity. |
| Summary |
Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late 20th-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse presents an exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue ethics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virtue.
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Virtue. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hursthouse, Rosalind. On virtue ethics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0198238185 9780198238188 (DLC) 99033141 (OCoLC)41439694 |
| ISBN |
9780191519369 (electronic book) |
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0191519367 (electronic book) |
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0198238185 (hardcover) 0199247994 9780199247998 |
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9780198238188 |
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